Niall O Dochartaigh
I started out as a historian, spending a year living in Derry in 1987 doing a research MA in history on 'Derry before the Troubles' under the supervision of Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh in Galway. The thesis looked at the origins of the civil rights movement and the conflict in the 1950s and 60s.
After spending a year in Berlin in 1989/90 I started a PhD in politics at Queen's University Belfast with Paul Bew in 1990, looking at the escalation of conflict in the North of Ireland in the early 1970s. The thesis was published as the book 'From Civil Rights to Armalites' (Cork UP 1997; Palgrave 2004). After a number of years when I was concerned primarily with the online world (establishing the University of Ulster's 'Conflict Data Service' and writing two textbooks on Internet research) I have returned in the past few years to research on conflict. My principal current interests are in conflict and territoriality, conflict and new technologies and attempts to moderate or resolve conflict.
My primary current research interest is in secret communication between the British government and the IRA in the Northern Ireland conflict. I have spent time as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; the Annenberg School for Communication, USC; Queen’s University Belfast; the University of Auckland and the University of Otago. I convene the specialist group on Peace and Conflict of the Political Studies Association of Ireland with Sandra Buchanan and recently established an ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence with Lorenzo Bosi. I am director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence at the National University of Ireland Galway. I have been running a lot of events recently, including a witness seminar on 'Talking Peace' with Ian McBride (KCL) and a conference on 'Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective' with Sinisa Malesevic (UCD).
Further information is available at http://niallodoc.wordpress.com.
Phone: +353 91 493594
Address: School of Political Science and Sociology
National University of Ireland Galway
University Road
Galway
Ireland
After spending a year in Berlin in 1989/90 I started a PhD in politics at Queen's University Belfast with Paul Bew in 1990, looking at the escalation of conflict in the North of Ireland in the early 1970s. The thesis was published as the book 'From Civil Rights to Armalites' (Cork UP 1997; Palgrave 2004). After a number of years when I was concerned primarily with the online world (establishing the University of Ulster's 'Conflict Data Service' and writing two textbooks on Internet research) I have returned in the past few years to research on conflict. My principal current interests are in conflict and territoriality, conflict and new technologies and attempts to moderate or resolve conflict.
My primary current research interest is in secret communication between the British government and the IRA in the Northern Ireland conflict. I have spent time as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; the Annenberg School for Communication, USC; Queen’s University Belfast; the University of Auckland and the University of Otago. I convene the specialist group on Peace and Conflict of the Political Studies Association of Ireland with Sandra Buchanan and recently established an ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence with Lorenzo Bosi. I am director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence at the National University of Ireland Galway. I have been running a lot of events recently, including a witness seminar on 'Talking Peace' with Ian McBride (KCL) and a conference on 'Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective' with Sinisa Malesevic (UCD).
Further information is available at http://niallodoc.wordpress.com.
Phone: +353 91 493594
Address: School of Political Science and Sociology
National University of Ireland Galway
University Road
Galway
Ireland
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Discussant: Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, National University of Ireland Galway
New information and communication technologies are working deep changes in the nature of political violence and the dynamics of civil war. But despite the existence of a large body of research that places technological change at the heart of our understandings of inter-state warfare and state-building (Giddens, Mann, Tilly and Poggi), the relationship between technology and political violence has been relatively neglected. This panel welcomes papers on all aspects of the relationship between new technologies and political violence, including the way in which new technologies interact with temporal and spatial contexts, with ideology and with organizational structures.
Abstracts of up to 500 words, along with 3-8 keywords, to niall.odochartaigh@nuigalway.ie by Monday 1 February 2016.
political and social agents through narratives of a shared past. In the current context of commemorations of
our shared and conflicted past, be it the 1916 Rising or the 1981 Hunger Strikes, it is necessary to reflect
upon the complex interplay between power and memory - which are constitutive of shared identity. Such a
relation can be seen all the more vividly in (post)conflict societies where 'historical allusions' have the
remarkable ability to shape political struggle, yet we assert, the malleability of such shared memories - in the
Irish context at least - so as to offer legitimacy and direction to hegemonic projects as they look to the future.
Anderson (1983) in theorizing the nation and national identity as belonging to an 'imagined community' has
captured the ways in which such a mode of identification is constantly reproduced and reimagined through
the lens of traditions, history, commemorations, literature and national.
Location: National University of Ireland Galway
Date: 3 March 2016
Submit abstracts by 5pm, Fri 18 December